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Yesterday I did some major deadlifting... like a pr for 8x3 so I was thrilled. About this time in my last meet cycle (11 weeks out) I was still doing maybe 235 for 8x3 so this was awesome for me! On the whole carb backloading thing, I completely let that go for the last week because I was too lazy to cook stuff where school started back again but today I decided to give it another try and I pre-cooked most of my meals for this week already yesterday. Wish me luck haha.

Also, to keep my weight down i've been doing some cardio in the mornings, like 30-40 min of walking on a treadmill at an incline and the stair climber. I'm in the 123 weight class and currently weigh 130 due to some muscle gain from all this volume. I'm gonna try and get down to around 125ish so it shouldn't be too bad if I follow the diet and the cardio plan I have worked out.

Yesterday I did some major deadlifting... like a pr for 8x3 so I was thrilled. About this time in my last meet cycle (11 weeks out) I was still doing maybe 235 for 8x3 so this was awesome for me! On the whole carb backloading thing, I completely let that go for the last week because I was too lazy to cook stuff where school started back again but today I decided to give it another try and I pre-cooked most of my meals for this week already yesterday. Wish me luck haha.

Also, to keep my weight down i've been doing some cardio in the mornings, like 30-40 min of walking on a treadmill at an incline and the stair climber. I'm in the 123 weight class and currently weigh 130 due to some muscle gain from all this volume. I'm gonna try and get down to around 125ish so it shouldn't be too bad if I follow the diet and the cardio plan I have worked out.

Bench went pretty well tonight, staying on track with the program. My bench is my weakest lift so I've really been sweating it lately trying to get it to go up up up lol . Its funny, usually your favorite lift is the one your best at, but I'm the opposite. I guess because it gives me a little more hype in that workout because I know I gotta get it moving soon. Anyway, here 'tis.

warm up
pull aparts - 100
band stretching

work
bench 120 8x3
2 board 120 5x5
close-grip 100 3x8

accessories

db rows - 3x15
db flies - 3x15
band push downs - 100 total

This morning I did 40 min of cardio plus some ab work also. Bench felt pretty good and strong so I'm hoping this continues.